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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Product Markets"”.
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The Timing of Follower Firm Entry Into Related Product Markets
… the timing of follower firm adoption of related product markets and assesses to what extent communication theory can be useful in explaining the phenomena. Adoption of a product market is defined here as a firm's entry into the market as indicated by the introduction of its first new product. …
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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given …
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Essays on Firm Innovation in Dynamic Product Markets: Examining Competitive Interactions During Technological Commercialization
… competitive advantage in industries with rapid product turnover. Firms commit limited resources when selecting which technologies to develop, affecting the composition of their product portfolios and allowing some firms to subsequently capture greater value relative to others. I examine how firm …
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Uncovering key actors in the marketing-firm value link
… to charge price premiums and penetrate new product markets. Hypotheses are tested using data from surveys of 220 North America based financial analysts. Based on analysts' feedback, brand and channel equity affect a firm's ability to penetrate new product markets, and brand equity also …
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Applications of Optimization and Machine Learning in Assortment Optimization and Revenue Management
Firms in modern product markets must often make assortment and pricing decisions in environments where demand structure is complex, high-dimensional, or only partially observable. Traditional approaches typically rely on parametric demand models and rich transactional data, which may not always be …
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Product market price integration in developing countries
… empirical evidence of price discrimination in markets for goods and services suggests that national markets should be viewed as segmented rather than integrated. Yet, this research is almost entirely driven by studies of price setting behaviour in developed countries. This thesis extends the …
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The Structure of Collective Bargaining: An Assessment of Its Development and Impact in Metropolitan Hospital Bargaining
… related to the character of labor and product markets and the scope of union organization, were identified as one major set of influences on structural development. Constituency considerations, related to the occupational interests of various categories of hospital employees, were also …
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Cohering with the Crowd: How Audiences Shape the Quasi-Scientific Process of Entrepreneurship
… valuation. I ask: why are some combinations of product categories more appealing to audiences than others? A prominent line of work, drawing on prototype theory, posits a universal penalty for category-spanning offerings. I clarify the limitations of this approach, focusing in particular on its …
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Essays on innovation and the financing of entrepreneurship
… engage in order to improve the quality of their products. On the flip side of my model, inventors who engage in R&D choose between pursuing a complementary innovation that they could sell to an incumbent firm and pursuing a disruptive innovation that could lead them to develop a superior …
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National approaches to consumer protection in France and Germany, 1970-1990
This research investigates the growth of product market regulation in France and Germany from 1970 to 1990. It finds that these countries have pursued divergent strategies for regulating their domestic product markets. France has treated consumers as citizens, granting them special political …
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Taxes and Product Market Outcomes: Asymmetric Effects of Tax Cuts on Winners v. Losers
… versus loss-making firms affects their product prices and market share. Using data that allow for direct pricing and product tests - airline route and pricing data - I find evidence consistent with differential consequences of tax rate cuts for profitable versus loss firms. Specifically, …
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Differentiation in higher education : a case study of Lesotho
… and adapt to unpredictable or volatile global product markets and rapid technological change. In order to be globally competitive, nations have to place knowledge production, accumulation, transfer and application at the centre of their national development strategies. This study investigates …
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THE INFLUENCE OF ADVERTISING APPROACH IN A TRIAL PURCHASE CONTEXT
… different advertising approaches in different product markets and also to explore brand usage and brand choices in these markets. Content analysis is applied to the results of phases 1 and 2. Finally. phase 3 of the research more specifically investigates the influence of advertising approach …
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Beneth corporate codes of conduct : what drives compliance in two Mexican garment factories
… workers and interact with the MNC external labor markets, product markets, cultural and language conditions inside the plants, and values of management. These factors influence the management style of the plants and their relationship with the MNC, which result in different implementation of the …
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Three studies on managers' disclosure decisions
… adverse effect of opioid abuse on information production within the firm. My second study examines how collusion in product markets affects managers' disclosure strategies and the resultant stock price crash risks. Using the staggered passage of national leniency laws in foreign countries to …
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Three studies on managers' disclosure decisions
… adverse effect of opioid abuse on information production within the firm. My second study examines how collusion in product markets affects managers' disclosure strategies and the resultant stock price crash risks. Using the staggered passage of national leniency laws in foreign countries to …
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The competitive position of wood products in the residential siding market
… to have strategic applications in the forest products industry. Four-hundred and twelve respondents provided information related to activities involving siding, product use, and distribution. Product-markets were explored using siding preferences, which were measured for single-family homes in …
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Economic performance of product and process firms
… in this industry are characterized as either product or process firms, reflecting the importance of technological capabilities in manufacturing industries. Specialized capabilities in product markets define product firms, whereas capabilities in materials processing and manufacturing …
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The impact of monetary policy on the U.S. cotton market
… of monetary policy on the U.S. agricultural product markets, specifically, the U.S. cotton market. The study developed a cotton sector model that recognizes the linkages between the monetary policy and the cotton sector through which the following variables are simultaneously determined: …
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Methodology to develop hybrid simulation/emulation model.
Trends towards reduced life-time of products and globalised competition has increased pressure on manufacturing industries to be more responsive to changing needs of product markets. Consequently, the use of simulation to describe short term future performance of manufacturing system has become …
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